there's clearly terrorist action. who was it? how do we know? where is the line between the department of defense and the secretary of state? how should we be protecting our diplomats? those kinds of questions don't come up at all. some of it is because of the urge ens around particularly on the republican side trying to find anything. they're looking for a foot hold, and this does in this sort of abstract nature of it all provide one. we don't really have any answers on what matters in all this, and i'm not sure when we're going to get them. >> that's right. that part of the report that says we actually have no idea who did this -- i mean, this happened on september 11th. it's been months. i feel like we've been having hearings in the interim, and, yet, there seem to be no -- there's no evidence. there is no clue pointing us in any direction. >> well, sure. i mean, we don't really know yet the political agenda behind this, but i think we do know that this is exactly the kind of thing that we're going see in the future. you know, terrorists are